Speaker Biography
Measurements Lecture
Professor Michael A. Sutton, University of South Carolina, USA
Biography
Michael A. Sutton received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois under the direction of Prof. Charles E. Taylor (NAE, 1979). In 1982, Dr. Sutton joined the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina and was awarded a Carolina Distinguished Professorship in 1992. He is currently a Research Professor and Director of the State Center for Mechanics, Materials and NDE, while also serving as the Chief Science Officer for Correlated Solutions, Incorporated, the only US-based DIC R&D company and global provider of digital image correlation measurement systems.
Prof. Sutton has received numerous national and international honors for his contributions in the fields of experimental mechanics, computer vision in solid mechanics and fracture mechanics. He is a Fellow and Past-President of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), Fellow of American Society for Mechanical Engineering (ASME), founding President of the International Digital Image Correlation Society, and one of the inventors of the digital image correlation (DIC) methods. In 2020, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering, and in 2021 he was elected to the Slovenian National Academy of Engineering. In 2022, Prof. Sutton received the ASME Timoshenko Medal and the Society of Engineering Sciences SES Medal.
Prof. Sutton’s recent areas of research interest include 3D computer vision for deformation measurements in civil infrastructure (train rails and ties, bridges, roofing systems), measurements and modeling for composite bonding during manufacturing, including measurement of traction-separation laws for prediction of defect formation during manufacturing.
Prof. Sutton married Elizabeth Ann Severns in 1973. They have two daughters (pediatric dentist and high school science teacher) and six grandchildren. They continue to reside near Columbia, SC on a 12.5-acre urban nature preserve and farm.
Plenary Speaker
Caitríona (Tríona) Lally, Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Director of Industry Engagement
Discipline: Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin
Biography
Her research is focused on better understanding soft tissue mechanics and composition using novel experimental, in silico modelling and imaging techniques, with a particular focus on cardiovascular and urological tissue mechanics to inform medical device design. She leads several research projects ranging from using novel MRI sequences to inform carotid plaque vulnerability to improving heart valve leaflet durability through pericardial tissue screening and development of novel biomimetic polymeric leaflets. Her lab has received funding from the ERC (starting and PoC grant), and extensive funding from Research Ireland, much of it through co-funding with leading medical device industries.
Areas of Expertise: Cardiovascular and urological tissue biomechanics, Computational modelling, Vascular Imaging (MRI, US, uCT), Biomaterials, Medical Device Design
Website: https://www.lallylab.eu/or https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=lallyca
Plenary Speaker
Professor Lizzy Cross, Dynamics Research Group, University of Sheffield
Biography
Lizzy Cross is a Professor in the Dynamics Research Group at the University of Sheffield, with research interests spanning the fields of structural health monitoring (SHM), machine learning and nonlinear system identification. Most of her research projects focus on the analysis of large datasets from monitored structures, where she employs data-driven algorithms to extract useful information, however, she has recently completed an EPSRC Innovation Fellowship pioneering a physics-informed machine learning approach for these problems. Lizzy is a co-director of the Laboratory for Verification and Validation, a state-of-the-art dynamic testing facility (lvv.ac.uk). She has published over 170 articles, including 50+ journal papers and 8 invited book chapters. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Cambridge Press Data-centric Engineering journal, as well as for the open access journal of Structural Dynamics. She awarded the Achenbach medal which recognises an individual (within 10 years of PhD) who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the field of SHM in 2019.